
One of the world’s most famous and widely-performed operas, Charles-François Gounod’s five act masterpiece, Faust, is a tale of temptation, romance and the age-old battle between good and evil.

Railway Wonderland took the audience from the 1940s to the present time and back as easily as a train between country towns. It took the audience on an emotional ride that had it laughing, clapping, and, sometimes, seriously silent.

The performances overall are meaty and grounded and provide for a night of, if not riveting theatre then enough strong moments to satisfy.

There is a new Lord of the Dance and although his dancing might match the great Flatley it is hard to tell as you never got the chance to immerse yourself in his fabulous foot work.

Sigmund Freud believed that “the aim of all life is death...” he called this theory the death instinct or Mortido.

Here’s what you get at a Laura Marling concert: storytelling, through long songs, some almost 15 minutes in length, with complex lyrics, and tunes that shift in tone and tempo.